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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Philadelphia. 



Kumbarger, resident manager at 



Pishing Hawk. W. Va., for the Rumbarger 



Lumber Company, was In town tor a few days 



an d reports the busiest season the 



mills there have ever bad. 



,1 \i McClOSky lias opened an office at 5307 

 Olrai-d ave., Philadelphia, to handle cypress 



and oak. He bas " with several lumber 



arms here and in Wesl Virginia and is now 

 striking out tor himself. 



.1. E. Troth, treasurer of the J. S. Kent Com- 

 pany, has been spending some days at the new 

 mill at Wallace, N. C, hustling tip Bhipmei 



Clem E. Lloyd, Jr., the astute manager of the 

 Cherrj River Boom and Lumber Company, has 

 j„st ten ii ned from the mills where he is trj 



umulate a little stock of hardw is 



Ltes bis firm cu( twenty percent 

 ,. and hemlock this year than last 

 and thai they are sold oul on these two lines 

 and are up to the saws on the hardwoods i 

 A. Klrby of the same company has gone 



trip to N'>r'h Carolina, Tennes and Ken 



tucky to gel some hardn Is tot their t ustom 



ers who at rying tor more. 



Charles Flynn and William A Port! 

 I learfleld, Pa., are just starting a large op i 

 Hon al Mor :o, W. Va., where they will have 



Smith s Prambes, late of the Frambes-Dlfen- 



i ompanj died on Sunday, Oct. 



liearl disease. He was 16 years old and 



lii,,l i D in the lumber business a numbi 



li.. was head of the Frampes Somi 



ipany, Atlantic City, N. 3 then 



.,.„ turing hardwoods In Gei iveled 



( or [hi Hall ,x Munson Lumber Company of 



i„ tool with .1 W Dlfenderfei he 



ton i the Prambes Difenderfer I umbet Com- 



te Building, Philadelphia On 

 .inly 13 last this linn was dissolved by mutual 



n , ,,! Since thai tl he was Identified with 



Owen M. Bruner Company. He was a widower 

 and leaves four children. 



Charles ll Tl pson ol Lewis Thompson -\ 



\. w Verk looking after some mabog 

 be has on band. This company re 

 porta ; the very best tins season 



|.\ ii. Wei-den oi the Rumbarger Lui 



pany is away on a two weeks buying trip 



in the south. II M Neelj of the same firm is 

 ; ilso awaj on a hardwood buying trip I 

 Rumbargei Lumbei Company has been doing a 

 land , inese this season, and is turning 



over stock al a lively rate 



The firm Of Strong & Me, kley. Real Kstati 



Building, was adjudged bankrupl on Sep! 



21. The liabilities are $63,522.93; assets 



$4,335 1" The senior partner of this firm, A. 



p. strong, died suddenly on Inly IS and the 



examination of the i ks was not completed 



until recently. The tirst creditors' niecin 

 colled tot Oct :•. 



Buffalo. 

 The advance In fire insurance rates strikes 

 ol the city lumber yards, even where they 

 are fairly oul ol the city. Some of the owners 

 all the risks they cannot get at 

 .Id rates M S. Tremaine and other lumber- 

 men who are interested in the Toledo Fire >v 

 Marine Company are organizing a new com- 

 pany. 



Scatcherd & Son find that the demand for 

 lumber is brisk enough to reduce their Buffalo 

 though they expert to get in an additional 

 supply verj 



II. S. .lanes of the Empire Lumber Companj 



,i. i.i get hold of considerable hardw I 



lumber on his recent trip south, but found pop- 

 lar mot- plentiful than oak. 



iwn ash from Michigan Is adding to the 



stork oi A Miller and it sells about as readily 



oytblng in hardwood. Other lumber is also 



rig up from the South to complete the 



ment. 



The standard Hardwood Lumber Company 

 has a specially fine stock of chestnut, five- 

 quarter and thicker, along with the general 

 assortment always carried. 



The growing business of the Buffalo Hard- 

 wood Lumber Company has made it necessary 

 to enlarge the yard considerably of late. J. B. 

 Wall has about recovered from his fall and is 

 back to business. 



Horace F. Taylor is one of the directors of 

 the new liuffalo Life Insurance Company. He 

 is still In Europe. Taylor & Crate continue to 

 get the best results from their Tudor oak mill 

 in Mississippi. 



The house trim business of G. Elias & Bro. 

 keeps the firm's big mill very busy and to meet 

 the demand for stock considerable white and 

 yellow pine is used along with hardwoods. 



I. N. Stewart & Bro. have a good stock of 

 Cuban mahogany which they are preparing to 

 push along with their cherry anil oak. of which 

 they have a very fine assortment. 



ii. E, Yrager is buying all the oak he can 

 find and in this way is able to keep a good 



assortment. Most other hardw Is come easier. 



hut oak is the leader and s.-is the pace as 



usual. 



C Iltions al Memphis continue to keep the 



Hugh McLean Lumber Company from building 

 their band mill, but II is all read] to Bel np 

 The other mills of the company are active and 

 doing g I work. 



Pittsburg. 



The Mead ,v Speer Company reports the hard- 



w I business strictly 0. I< They are having a 



rapid sale in framing materials and have their 

 four mills in West Virginia running full. Their 

 mill ai Catlettsburg, K.\ . is shut down until 

 rsl of the 



The Ruskauff Lumber C panj reports no 



lath. Mr. Ruskauff says they are r ring a 



splendid Inquiry tor hardwood huilding mate 

 rial and for hemlock in nearly all grades. 



The iii.i Colony Coal Company, which owns 



acres of hardwood timber In West] 



land ntv. Pennsylvania, is preparing to start 



operations "" a pan oi the trad this fall. 

 Most of the lumber will have to he hauled In 

 wagons three miles to the railroad This tract 

 Is .me of the last remaining in Westmoreland 



county and is ex| ted to make an tinusiialU 



heavy cut 



.1. N. Woollen, hardwood manager of the 

 American Lumber & Manufacturing Company, 

 has inaugurated a vigorous policy of getting 

 after trade. Ills assistant, C. II- Edwards, has 

 just been making an extensive tour ol tin 

 Ohio towns and also of the furniture trail- in 

 the district around Grand Rapids. Mr. Word 

 lett reports conditions in hardwood very satis 

 factory so far as orders go. hut says that stocks 

 are light In many lines, notably chestnut, for 

 which his department has had a big call re- 

 cently. 



The Cheat Itlver Lumber Company Is book- 

 ing some nice orders these days for ash In log 

 run. They are also having a good call for 

 sound wormy chestnut and lately took an order 

 ver 500i feet 



The Southern Securities & Development Com- 

 pany has la-en organized to deal extensively In 

 southern timber lands. It has opened offices In 

 the Diamond Bank building In Pittsburg and 

 has already three big tracts of southern timber 

 to handle. 



The Nicola Brothers < Company has a full 

 tone of people at work taking care of Its hard- 

 wood trade. It expects soon to he able to 

 market a large quantity Of oak and chestnut 

 from Its lO.QOO-acre tract of land, In fulfilment 

 of the S22.1, iKitl contract which it made recently 

 with the Moorbead Lumber Company of Klttan- 

 ning. Pa., by which it gets the entire output of 

 that concern's mills in West Virginia for next 

 year. 



Mies. ii. has a new handle factory which will 

 turn out .'..".mi handles a day. Ash and hickory 



will he the principal woods used. F. A. Rine- 

 hart and M. I!. Maskrey of Greenville, Pa., are 

 the owners. 



The Hassinger Lumber Company of Barnes. 

 I'a.. has been organized to develop a tract of 

 15.000 acres of timber land near Abingdon, Va. 



The Consolidated Coal, Land & Lumber Com- 

 pany of Logan. W. Va.. has been incorporated 

 with a capital of $300,000 by Jacob L. Houstan 

 of Cleveland, Granville Neace of Peck. W. Va.. 

 and J. Cary Alderson, G. W. Taylor and Naa- 

 tnaii Jackson of Logan. W. Va. 



The State Forestry Reservation Board of 

 Pennsylvania is about to buy from the Central 

 Pennsylvania Lumber Company 20.000 acres of 

 land on Fishing Creek, I'a.. in Sullivan county, 

 from which the timber was cut several years 

 ago. 



J. L. and S. A. Kendall of the Yough-Manor 

 Lumber I'ompany of Pittsburg have bought the 

 entire holdings of the Preston Lumber & Coal 

 Company of Wilkesbarre for .'STSO.OOO and will 

 form a new company with a capital of $1,000,- 



to develop the property. .7. L. Kendall 



will be president of the new concern, which will 

 .1 , nihil the Kendall Lumber Company; S. A. 

 Kendall will be vice president, -T. C. Kendall, 

 treasurer, and J. II. Henderson, secretary. The 

 property includes 24,11011 acres of virgin hard- 

 woods, oak and hemlock in Maryland, and is 

 the largest tract in the Last. Included in the 

 purchase were a band sawmill with a capacity 



oi 12.".. feel a day. a smaller sawmill in 



the mountains, a standard gauge railroad 32 

 miles long with three locomotives and 40 rats. 

 'in entire town of Crellln, Mil, and a valuable 

 lumbering equipment Including 30 teams. The 

 new company will take over the rough-Manor 

 Lumber Company and with the mills of the lat- 

 ter will he able to turn out 250, > feet of 



iiniliri a day. The shipping point will he near 



Oakland, Md., on the main line of the Balti • ■ 



& Ohio railroad. 



Two new hardwood retail linns in Allegheny, 

 I'a.. in. ihr ijianuel Lumber Company and the 

 Bradle] Mllllken Lumber Company, both of 

 which have established good yards. 



II. W. Ilrtininger. president of the Reliance 

 Lumber Company, lias taken a careful survey 

 of the situation and is bending all his energies 

 nisi now to supplying his trade with good house 

 lumber, for which he says there is a remark- 

 able demand both in Pittsburg and the sur- 

 roundlng towns. 



MlltOn Miller of I 'ollliellsville. |';|., lp|S Se- 



cured control of 3,000 acres of timber land 

 i . in Bellngton, W. Va., which is valued at 

 $60,000. Ihr timber is red and white oak, 

 poplar, chestnut, us] nnd hemlock, and Mr. 

 Miller is hunting a nail who will take a third 

 Interest in the tract. 



The box business Is pirking up very fast in 

 Pittsburg and the few firms that are in the 

 box making business are rushed with work. 

 The Kress Box Company reports an excellent 

 call for packing boxes and employs 100 hands. 

 It is turning out about 5,000 boxes a day. most 

 of which are made from cottonwood and pop- 

 lar. The larger part of the product is mar- 

 keted In the city. 



August Miller has sold his lumber yard at 

 Homestead to the Pennsylvania Railroad Coin 

 pany for about $50,000. The plot was 500x150 

 feet iu size and bas been occupied by him for 

 lumber purposes for several years. 



The Indian Creek Lumber Company, whose 

 tract Is located between Indian Creek and 

 I.igonier. Pa., has sold the land, some 9,000 

 acres, to a syndicate lor $65 an acre. The 

 timber is located on one of the proposed Wa- 

 bash railroad lines and it is estimated that 

 the production will average 25,000 feet of lum- 

 ber to the acre. The timber is oak, chestnut 

 and hemlock. 



W. E. McMillan of the McMillan Lumber 

 i ompony is reported to be improving rapidly at 

 the Clifton Springs sanitarium in New York 

 state, where he went recently to convalesce 



